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  • get the extended battery :)

  • Most of the things you said were wrong ! I have the HTC HD2 and the lighting on the camera is nothing like that. And also the battery life, the battery life lasts me for about 2 days to 2 and a half days.

  • I subscribed to your channel man, Great review. I was on the fence with this device but thanks to your presentation, I am now going to take the chance on the HTC HD2. Thank you .

  • "enough lighting in DARK SITUATIONS"

    You're awesome, bro!

    Thanks for doing this! I am getting a Touch Pro 2 in a day.

  • It's a really nice phone and I had it, but I had to get rid of it because the software had a lot of problems. I will never get a Windows phone again. I had to switched to a mytouch slide 3g and it works way better than the HTC HD2. On top of that, the Windows app market sells almost every app. Is hard to find free apps on the Windows market.

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  • the massive size puts me off

  • That phone is to thick

    people will think i have a hard on when im walking around with it in my pocket

  • the Video u played, is it a avi file or some other,

    cuz avi files don't player directly on the htc hd2 without a software or a converted file

  • great review man! thanks and God bless. you've convinced me to buy the phone

  • great review =)

  • You have to wait for the player to recognize all the tracks, u have to wait some time, but after that, all is fine. U can't just open a 2000 playlist and expect it to recognize and organize them instanlatiously, even a PC would need some time. As for the task maneeger, just create a favorite on ur hame screen, a shortcut to it, and ur set.

  • Wow, u r wrong man, the headphone r amazing, they compare to my 70$ SHE9850, really wrong, just put the headphone sleeves on, and it will change a lot. I have this phone, and the battery life is much better than the one on the iphone or n97, if u use task maneger to close programs when u have to. U have to know how to use such a beast. You have to like to take care of ur phone to get this, it demands attention, but the Sence UI is worth it.

  • Good detail i like the length of this video i like detail about products very good video thank you.

  • That's for evrey external memory related item, psp, phones, anything. The bigger the memory the more unstable it gets

  • You are a reviewing machine!

  • shall i buy this or galaxy s

    help me

  • @floflo110 Buy An HTC HD2 !! you know Galaxy S is not so good it's realy annoying HTC HD2 is perfect Everything is good on that phone Buy a HTC HD2 :D

  • should i buy this or n900 . i m confused please get back at me asap... thnx !

  • At lost someone not comparing this to the iphone, their 2 different worlds

  • To absolon3, just create a shortcut of the task manager on the home screen, it solve a lot of hassle.

  • I still like WinMo, guess I'm kind of old school. I don't need a media centric phone like many of the new "smart phones" are. WinMo was built for business and it meets those needs very well. Plus I like modifying my phone and customizing it, also WinMo seems to get things before other smartphones do, such as flash, I realize that Android now supports flash but WinMo has had flash capable browser for a few years now. Have any of the updates solved the music problem with sense?

  • samsung vibrant kills hd2 seriously!!!

  • me along with everyone i else i know with this phone complains its a great phone but it freezes ALOT texting takes minutes to load at times and the phone randomly turns off and takes removal of the battery for it to turn back on...go for the Samsung Vibrant or mytouch 3g but great video bro.

  • I have a question on the battery, i don't use web all that much if at all it's just a quick 2 second search mainly I just text and make a few brief calls would i get a full day use from the battery then?

  • Brilliant presentation man! Tnx

  • I have no problem putting my HD2 in my tote bag..

  • i noticed the lag in the music player too, and i only have 7-8 gb of songs ... it depends on what you use to download the music .... ive noticed the windows media player works best and has the least amout of lag

  • hey trent, wats your definition of a heavy power user? i am just curious as i currently use a sony mobile and am looking for a new platform. pls reply thanks

  • How big is the internal memory of the HD2 ??

  • Thanks for the review, I was thinking about getting the hd2 but now I might as well get the bb 9700.

  • YO! this phones camera is Better than MY N97's!

  • Nice review that music player thing is pretty bad have you tried putting the same amount of data in a video format (movies) and see if it has the same problem?

    I have seen others with the same type issues and som custom roms have fixed it but I wonder if its a proplem with the sense ui player or the device itself I tend to think the UI. I think you were expecting a bit much from the solo speaker. The Tp2 had a much better speaker arrangement because it was focused on being a business speaker ph

  • thanks trent. excellent review. you've helped me make my decision. i've subscribed as well.

  • HD2 or my touch slich which to get? which is better?

  • Nice reveiw man!! But with my experience at NSeries in the past( N95,N96 ) and HD2 now, i don't agree with the video camera recording..

    HD2 camera is far better for me in all conditions.

  • Excellent review! Very informative and helpful.

  • guys i have 14 days to change my motorola cliq for this htc hd2 should i ??

  • Best phones reviews on Youtube, no doubt! Keep it up, and keep em comin

  • realy best review i have seen with all pros and cons of this mobile, but i want to buy it anyway :)

  • thanx for the review. great job on the review you really bring it down to every day use

  • im thinking to buy this or nokia n97 mini , i was impresed with same features but battery worries me..im power user , one more thing that htc hd2 has is better internet browser..HELP ME...which one to chose ?they are both awesome

  • This man really knows his technology well. This is giving me a really good insight on what I might want to get next...

  • you can carry a second battery with you

    its small and cheap

  • @Alibaba3000 haha:D

  • Great review man honestly thanks.

  • I enjoy the way you review phones. Instead of just having the camera pointed at it, you go into detail about the different functions, with pop up video windows. Which I think is a nice touch. Most reviews on here aren't as in depth as yours are. You just got a new subscriber.

  • @darkpoet25 I agree.

  • Well the Tg01 did have the 4.3 inch screen but it was resistive touch and its UI can go suck a dick. HD2 is the first 4.3 inch capacitive and the Sense UI is wonderful...well mostly.

  • this is by all means too huge dude.

    good review !!!

  • you might be right I tried several thing that didn't work. I even took it back to the dealer  who should know everything about the phone considering they had been using them weeks before they sold them. THEY WERE NO HELP AT ALL. you should make a vid and send it to the dealers. I don't even care at this point got a new android. i can do EVERYTHING i want now. HD2 is a piece of shit.

  • This Phone is garbage. what was HTC thinking? WEB OS and Android are better than this HTC HD2 is utter crap. Software running is windows mobile 6.5 which is Trash. Ha and forget about getting any great apps for free on windows mobile lol. Microsoft giving out free apps? that's like microsoft asking you to give you some ice with you're water you already paid for. Sad to see HTC using Windows mobile 6.5. Well the EVO 4G which is from htc also which is coming to sprint is going to run Android.

  • good review sir!!!

  • great review!!!

  • Man.. i have a 2Gb card.. and still freezed.. sometimes it freezez in my pocket.. i still love it.. but it has a lot of needs to add up..

  • great video man!

  • I like the conversational style of this review. You're like talking to a friend about a phone. I can't wait to hear what you have to say about the Samsung Galaxy or the Evo. I have an HD2 right now but it's not going to be around at the end of next week. I'm taking it back because getting it to do what I want is more trouble than I'm willing to put up with. I had a Nexus that didn't have the specs but outside of rebooting and freezing was a much more pleasant device.

  • BEWARE OF THIS PHONE! all it has is a good picture. 3 friends bought it last week i am the only one who still has it ,UNTIL THIS WEEKEND. i thought i was upgrading from the G1. BAD BAD MOVE. it doesn't even let you use music on your SD card as a ringtone,something that simple can't be done. and the apps FORGETABOUTIT ! TRASH!

  • @djlarrylarr I don't know what you are talking about; not only that mines show the music, it downloads the the album covers through Gracenote. Also you have to move the ringtones from the SD card to the device itself. You gotta learn to use you phone instead having a phone use you.

  • very through review great video, i have one, and you nail it

  • GREAT REVIEW BRO...U THE MAN!!

  • got my tmobile hd2 today it rocks and i got over 1200 song it works just fine no lag no freez

  • Best review ever.

  • ok guys remember thats not the tmobile version of the htc hd2 that we will be getting out here in the usa so im sure its gonna be better then all the bads he said about it because i went into a tmobile store yesterday and got to play with one and the sound and everything to me seems amazing! i just wish we got the pouch the overseas htc hd2 people got with theres instead we get a shitty silicone sleeve that doesnt protect the front of the screen or really anything if it was dropped =[

  • I thought part one showed that it was TMobiles HD2.

  • can this phone watch avi videos?

  • if you don't like the phone and it doesn't suit you, do you wanna sell it to me instead? i'll take it.

  • @dominoesbadandy I'll sell you mine in an instant. Send me a message and we'll fix it!

  • Best ever review on a phone on youtube.. good work..

  • This is the unlocked non US 3G version.  The 3G version for the US is only from T-Mobile.

  • can u tell me wherwe ya got it??? i know its comin 2 tmobile.but still

  • 10/10 BEST Review !

  • CAN THIS PHONE PLAY SONGS AND VIDEOS BOUGHTEN FROM iTUNES?

  • Regarding the memory card...did you happen to try smaller cards? Or transferring files via USB sync straight to phone rather than removing the card and reinserting it? I'll bet that upon removal, the phone has to re-catalog the file library and that may goof it up, or possibly it isn't hot-swappable. Or this behavior could explain the US version getting a RAM bump.

  • the screen size is perfect. try putting the ipad in your pocket.

    garbage!

    where is the htc supersonic?...

  • Since you did this review in December, any new updates you can share with us?

    I am especially curious as to whether you are experiencing any lagging issues...

  • Nice review ;) i really liked that you are so honest about the battery life time, sound quality and stuff like that! Hope for some more reviews from you ;)

  • well the battery on the n900 with heavy use only lasts 6 hrs. For medium use it lasts about 10 hrs so if the htc hd2 lasts a day with heavy use it kicks nokia's butt. I was gonna get the n900 but have used this phone and its the bomb. nuff said lol!

  • For the battery life you can buy a 1500mah battery for like 13 dollars on ebay =]

  • What would you advise me to get? iPhone 3gs or this?

    I want a smartphone which can do a

    Lot n i listen to music a good lot. Will i have the problem with 500 songs? Is the speaker loud enough so you can hear it outside?

  • if u wanna hear it outside, then u will need a boom box lol

  • @TechoPL get this mate, the iphone 3gs are nothing compared to this bad boy, i got 1 of these yesterday, there is so many things on it, and the camera is very good quality, it is also fast and reliable.

  • what is your personal phone,what phone you think is the best in your opinion?

  • Great review

  • Great review! thanks

  • why do you have so much money look at all those gadgets? what do u do for a living?

  • hd2 for business.

    nexus one for younger people who want an easy operable phone.

  • i have the same problem with my 16gb memory card too, is there a solution to it?

  • If the battery life is a deal breaker for you, there is a bigger battery available for this phone...but it would be nice if the US version came with the task manager more accessible...should help with battery life too.

    they increased the storage and memory for the US, maybe the battery will also be different...probably not though :(

  • they just unleashead there will be no difference between eu and us version

  • @mckayser lies

  • I'm currently with sprint and have the tp2, but I just found out that the hd2 is coming to t mobile. Can someone please tell me about the t mobile service and 3g coverage. I'm going to switch to t mobile if I get some positive feedback.

  • Finally Coming to T-mobile Am patiently waiting!!

  • I wish more vendors would send their phones to you for review... great, detailed, fair, unbiased report!

  • Way Way to nagetive man some of your comments

  • like i said on your other video i think you must have a bad phone or memory card as i have a 16gb card and has over 6 gbs of music on and everything is fine

    plus have 5 gigs of films and alot of tv shows

  • Maybe the memory card used is low speed. If you have a class 6 card it should work pretty fast

  • strange that you complain about the battery i get 2 days battery life out of this phone when using for text/calls and games and using wi-fi a bit

  • I hve this phone and I don't have battery problems and I have 16BG card with 10 music albums at 600kb per album and no problems.

  • I see you have a mac there, do you use your mac to drag music onto the SD card? I have a mac myself and i'm getting this phone in the mail soon. If you are, what programs do you use?

  • Yes, I do use the Mac to drag music onto the SD card. I use no programs to do this, for I simply insert the card reader to the Mac. The SD card then appears as a removable drive on the desktop.

  • Nice! Thank you for the quick answer. And good review too!

  • the audio on the ben stiller movie seems out of sync

  • so do you think this phone would easily handle my about 400 songs?

    and do you think the battery would last the day if i only use it for occational texting/phonecalls and a small amount of internet usage?

  • i want to get this phone pregnant

  • Hey Trent how's edge 2.5g?

  • It's not bad at all. I honestly notice no difference from AT&T.

  • @Saints504boy hey hows 3g??

    Sprint will forever be the bestxD

  • @Iwebguru i have tmobile and even i know verizon is definetly the best

  • Excellent video, however most other htc hd2 vids in YouTube regards it's battery to be top notch, are you sure you did not get one with a faulty battery?

  • hi trent.. happy new year !

    r u able to get att 3g (850/1900) will be available on this hd2 ???

  • i believe their is going to be an extended battery released and all software related problems can be fixed via hotfixes

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  • good vid!!..5***** what editing software do you use?

  • I currently use iMovie '09 on my MacBook Aluminum, but am trying to learn Final Cut Pro.

  • good but not enough to kill iphone :)

  • Wow what a racist thing to say. He doesn't sound "white", he sounds educated. There's a difference. Most educated people sound like this. Including myself, and I'm Hispanic. Guess I should walk around saying homie and vato all the time? Sheesh. Anyway Trent, good review. Keep up the good work.

  • you didnt like it? give it to me!!!

  • Best review ever! :D

  • best review of the HD2 in seen/heard. went into great detail. thank you

  • Does it make phone calls? You briefly mentioned Voicemail quality, but that was it. I don't have a Facebook or Tweeter account, and I do watch movies on my huge plasma TV. Is there anything left for me to take from this... phone? Is it a phone, right?

  • very nice review. part 1 and 2. big ups but seriously who put 2000 songs on a micro sd card. obviously the phone will freeze. i am thinking to get the phone anyway. no internet nor music usage. just phone.

  • thx man..u just solved my dilemma..i'll take the n900 cause i'm a heavy user internet,music,video,games,app guy...

  • @coolity88 N900's battery goes down much faster than HD2's :( damn batteries

  • @romanii87 i got both..the n900 does 24hrs with heavy usage..the hd2 about 20(the big screen needs a lot power)

  • Great preview, very informative

  • Thank you again for this great review, looking forward to the next.

  • Amazing review :)

    Thank you for sharing your user opinion with us, and with that much passion and goodness and on top of all, good energy.

  • @absolon3

    in the begining you said that when you used only WM without HTC sense that it was "clunky". what do you mean by clunky? was it computer laggy/slow, or was it just ugly and disorganized? i dont see how any OS can be laggy on such a powerful device

    and as far as the battery goes, dont they usually sell upgradeable batteries for such devices that are not physically bigger but more powerful and last longer??

  • thanks for make a review of the htc hd2 without mention the iphone.

  • Regarding the music file Freeze, don't put more than 50 files under one directory... sort them under artist names and albums.

    Windows media player can do this for you automatically if you use it to sync.

    That should fix the lag with large music selections.

  • Good review, thanks.

  • you got to love your wife, lol you sound like dr. phil

  • Thanks for the review. Helped me alot :D

    I think I`m gonna try it out.

  • That was the VERY BEST review i've seen on a smartphone . That was very indepth . I'm looking forward to seeing more of your reviews . GREAT JOB Sir .

  • First my respect to you for this video

    but I can not understand wy you put more than 2000 songs on the phone while the htc hd 2 days baterij not stand a full day, if you listen to a lot off music you better buy an mp3 player..shit over 2000 songs..all thing you where clever,...pease

  • I have that many songs on a microSD card simply because I can have them, and it is mainly for a diverse selection of music to be available to me if I do decide to use my phone for music. I primarily use an iPod Touch and do not use my phones as daily music players. We all have many ways in which we use our devices, and playing music happens to be one feature I simply tested on the HD2.

  • Best review I have seen on the HD2! Keep up the good work.

  • htc hd 2 or omnia 2 ???????

  • @Atsiki1 The hd2 destroys the omnia 2 man. Its not even close.

  • i love you video reviews

  • And by the way, you can buy extended batteries. It will probably make the phone a lot wider, but its worth it if youre a power user.

    I can wait for this to come to the U.S! Ive been watching videos on this phone for months, and this is the realest and most detailed review yet. EVERYONE TAKE NOTES ON HOW TO REVIEW A PHONE, BECAUSE YOU OTHER REVIEWERS SUCK!

  • I've been thinking about buying this phone, but you revealed some harsh truth I would've preferred not to hear, dam it!!

  • YOU MUST TRY the bravo :)

  • Hey Trent.

    You have the best quality device review videos on all of the internet IMHO. Extremely thorough and well edited. I happen to LOVE the camera angle you chose to narrate this review with, with your new desk setup in the back - I think it is very fitting. I also think the picture in picture effect you used (for example, to show the video quality clip of the HD2) was a fantastic choice. I'm wondering if this was a result of your studies into final cut pro? My best compliments!

  • Thanks so much! Actually, I am still using iMovie '09 with advanced features.

  • absolon3

    how is the battery time compare to iphone 3gs ?

  • I haven't used the 3GS in recently.

  • 1) is there gonna be a better battery available on sale for the hd2?

    2) data connection- is it possible to turn off data connection on the hd2- so it only uses wifi- and does the hd2 automatically scans for wifi networks and connects to them- will it keep updating things like weather over wifi, even if the data is off

    3) if both the data and wifi are on- which connection will the hd2 pick?

    4) which good gps software can you recommend- one that doesn't need internet connection to operate

  • 1. I don't know. 2. I never looked into turning off my data connection. 3.WiFi seemed to be the first choice when available. 4. Google Maps for me, but I do believe it needs internet.

  • What's with the hydrogen symbol?

  • Those are desktops inspired by Dr. Manhattan from The Watchmen.

  • This or the N900

    whats your choice?

    thanx

  • N900. But with the N900 there are sacrifices that have to be made in regards to how I used my phone. So far, I think it has been worth the risk.

  • I figured, which is the only reason I know it's a hydrogen symbol.

  • Do you buy all these phones?

  • No, not all of them.

  • Did you used Highspeed Micro SD Cards?

  • I just looked into the situation and learned my SanDisk HC cards are class 2, which is the slowest and cheapest. Going into a class 6 may be the best bet, if there are any microSD cards available in that capacity.

    Nonetheless, my Nokia devices still have no trouble accessing the music content on these cards, so I am still thinking this involves the phone hardware as well.

    Thanks for the great question!

  • i love this phone man.. what is the box price on this. Ebay has them shot up to 700+ is it avail. in the US yet?

  • A little over $800 on Expansys-USA when I last saw it.

  • thanks trent...give a simiar review on the n900 i'm purchasing the n900 for my girlfriend & ill die if her phone is better than my hd2....lol!

  • The speaker is a real pain indeed. I don't care about music (music over a phone-speaker is always crap, so the only thing you can do is annoy people around you) and voice over speaker is ok-ish. But when using navigationsoftware, it just does not suffice.

  • A real pain is the fact that initially this device was meant to run Android instead of WinMo. Unfortunately, MS probably made HTC an offer they couldn't refuse to let their flagship run on WinMo. Maybe some of tis device's weaknesses wouldn't be there (or at least in a lesser extent) with the OS it was designed for.

  • the n900 it's next for review ?

  • i'm sold wit that 4.3 inch screen!!! where can i order it?

  • Try the website of Expansys-USA.

  • thanks trent love ya reviews...i'm a web browser hows browsing on the hd2 an how is it on the new skyfire 1.5 & thanks for the info on the battery i keep my car charger wit me at all times.

  • I have never been a fan of Skyfire and only used the Opera and Internet Explorer browsers with the phone.

  • Skytfire works as good as it works on other devices. However, it's just not for this phone. Sf doesn't support stuff like landscape-mode and multitouch. Also, stuff like video in fullscreen doesn't work, and the videoquality is too low for a big screen like the HD2's.

    I love Skyfire on my E71, but for the HD2 we'll just have to wait for a proper Sf-version.

  • how is edge on the hd2 with snapdragon is it faster?

  • EDGE data was good, but not surprisingly fast as one would expect.